Heather’s Picks

Heather’s Picks, chosen by Heather Reisman, “Chief Booklover” (President and Chief Executive Officer) of Chapters/Indigo Books in Canada.

(List is ordered by most-recently added first. Books crossed off are ones I’ve read.)

1. Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance — Janet Gleeson
2. Sunny Side Up — Paolo Nutini
3. Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller — Jeff Rubin
4. The Disappeared — Kim Echlin
5. 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea — Suzy Welch
6. Cutting For Stone — Abraham Verghese
7. Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories — Azar Nafisi
8. Still Alice — Lisa Genova
9. The Given Day: A Novel — Dennis Lehane
10. The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer
11. The Book of Negroes — Lawrence Hill
12. Bright Shiny Morning — James Frey
13. The Cellist Of Sarajevo — Steven Galloway
14. Audition: A Memoir — Barbara Walters
15. People Of The Book — Geraldine Brooks
16. Unfeeling: A Novel — Ian Holding
17. Late Nights on Air — Elizabeth Hay
18. Memoirs: 1939-1993 — Brian Mulroney
19. Loving Frank: A Novel — Nancy Horan
20. The Almost Moon: A Novel — Alice Sebold
21. Prisoner of Tehran — Marina Nemat
22. Infidel — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
23. About Alice — Calvin Trillin
24. Exile: A Novel — Richard North Patterson
25. The Thirteenth Tale — Diane Setterfield
26. The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel — Jed Rubenfeld
27. Water for Elephants: A Novel — Sara Gruen
28. Iran Awakening: From Prison to Peace Prize: One Woman’s Struggle at the Crossroads of History — Shirin Ebadi
29. Suite Francaise — Irene Nemirovsky
30. Everybody Was So Young: Gerald And Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story — Amanda Vaill
31. The Birth House — Ami Mckay
32. Tiny Dancer: The Incredible True Story of a Young Burn Victim’s Journey — Anthony Flacco
33. The Year Of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion
34. The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
35. A Complicated Kindness — Miriam Toews
36. Something Borrowed — Emily Giffin
37. The Swallows of Kabul: A Novel — Yasmina Khadra
38. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters — Elisabeth Robinson
39. River of the Brokenhearted — David Adams Richards
40. A Blade of Grass — Lewis Desoto
41. The Da Vinci Code: A Novel — Dan Brown
42. Birth Of Venus — Sarah Dunant
43. Ten Thousand Lovers — Ravel Edeet
44. The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold
45. The Secret Life Of Bees: A Novel — Sue Kidd
46. Crow Lake — Mary Lawson
47. Atonement — Ian Mcewan
48. The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi: A Novel — Jacqueline Park
49. My Friend Leonard — James Frey
50. The Glass Castle: A Memoir — Jeannette Walls
51. Breaking Ground — Daniel Libeskind
52. We Are All The Same — Jim Wooten
53. An Accidental Canadian — Margaret Wente
54. Big Russ & Me: Father and Son Lessons of Life — Tim Russert
55. A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story Of The Al Qaeda Kidnapping Of Danny Pearl — Mariane Pearl
56. Persepolis: The Story Of A Childhood — Marjane Satrapi
57. Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Islamic Women — Geraldine Brooks
58. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Doris Kearns Goodwin
59. Conspiracy Of Fools: A True Story — Kurt Eichenwald
60. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t — Jim Collins
61. Jack: Straight From The Gut — Jack Welch
62. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance: Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change — Louis V Gerstner
63. From Beirut to Jerusalem — Thomas L. Friedman
64. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America — Erik Larson